Vocal Works

Collections and Cycles

  • Visionary (2000)
    baritone and piano; original texts
  • Three Shakespeare Songs (2001)
    soprano and piano; texts from Sonnet 29, Hamlet, and The Tempest
  • Quixote Meditations (2002)
    three-song set for baritone and piano; original text; premiered May 2003
  • Context Songs (2005)
    cycle of songs excerpted from Context of Love Lives; texts by Elizabeth Bishop and Oscar Wilde; premiered October 2006
  • Fragments (2010)
    Soprano and piano; text from fragments of Sappho

Individual Songs

  • "Flow On, River!" (2003)
    unaccompanied vocal quartet (SATB); text: Walt Whitman, from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", commissioned by the Walt Whitman Project; premiered June 2003
  • "Oh You Whom I Often and Silently Come" (2002)
    baritone and piano; text: Walt Whitman; premiered May 2004
  • "The Little Black Boy" (2002)
    mezzo-soprano and piano; text: William Blake
  • "Quai d'Orleans" (2003)
    soprano and piano; text: Elizabeth Bishop; premiered March 2004
  • "O Living Flame of Love" (2003)
    bass-baritone and piano; text: St. John of the Cross; premiered March 2004
  • "The Ideal"(2003)
    baritone and piano; text: Charles Baudelaire
  • "Trickle Drops" (2003)
    tenor and piano; text: Walt Whitman; premiered May 2004
  • "Sought Him" (2007)
    vocal quartet (S,CT,T,B) and piano; text from the Song of Songs; premiered March 2007

Sketch of Rachel Carter and Jill Waycie by Joan Chiverton, Ocbtober 2006

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